(3of3) Triumph of the Nerds: Great Artists Steal. 1996 480P Documentary

[johnrocketman]

My favorite part starts here 09:46

[macomputersuck]

Third rate products?

[macomputersuck]

Microsoft having no taste? What is he talking about?

[macomputersuck]

Bill Gates making software for Steve Jobs? What is this? Never thought that would happen.

[christpunchers]

It's nice to see Gates honoring his development team. Would Jobs do the same? I have my doubts.

[54321thedeathbed]

The future? iPad. Apple is way ahead.

[Afroxec]

Rofl wired is the future? Lololol

[reggielittle25]

This vid went viral on Morocco

[psmooth777]

It's so annoying to hear this guy continually bash Jobs and Gates for being ego-maniacs. Steve Jobs sat and explained exactly how the XEROX researches created the GUI. He said that XEROX could have owned the computer industry! I don't feel bad for XEROX, their executives didn't have the right vision. 

[Group51]

@brabon1 Cringely is off tv, but by no means is he put of the game. try Googling him.

[Group51]

Watching Larry Ellison from this iPad was quite surreal. This is it, I'm actually holding the future.

[mavericksf16]

They got it Jay Leno lol!

[glui2001]

Oh how things have changed since 1996...

[kilik99999]

So true...



[f0ofyBunny]

Wow.. that was, cringe-worthy.

[crs2379]

Steve Jobs pissing and moaning -1

[cmdugan]

If you think about it Larry Ellison was thinking of an iPad: a "TV screen" (in this case a giant touch screen), constant Internet connectivity (3G service), and an App store. Probably didn't think it would come from Apple though.

[iDraw3G]

@cmdugan the ipad isn't a tv screen, you idiot. He was literally talking about accessing the internet through television, not a device like the ipad

[WizzRacing]

@iDraw3G No he was not. Larry Ellison was talking about accessing all the content you want in one place. The device would "work" like a T.V. where you can see and use all of it. Something that Apple is doing right now with iOS and interconnected devices speaking to each other.

In the future developers will drive the market not the O.S. or hardware. They will create it and sell it without boxing anything. It will go straight to the front end selling, and that is where the war is headed.

[WizzRacing]

@cmdugan It is what Larry Ellison is talking about. The iPad with iTunes connected 24\7 you can get anything you want, from audio\video\books\information in one place. I see this as the computer of the future in the next 5 years. If you look close at intel you will see the CPU having all the features of a main stream mother board in one package for the hardware. The rest is war who will be the application provider and the platform it will run on. Apple has the head start with iOS and iPad so far

[achan1058]

@cmdugan I don't think he would mind too much. Larry was a friend of Steve.

[achan1058]

We're talking holy war we're talking rivers of blood and fields of dead martyrs to the cause of greater computing. We're talking about a guy who sees the personal computer as his tool for changing the world. We're talking about Steve Jobs.

So true, even 10+ years after this video.

[minimalmodulation]

C'mon, 10years come back explain and analyze more ;)

[sqWADooSh]

1:10 young gabe newell?

[brabon1]

cringely is now out of the game, which is why there never was a 10 year update

and how he never got to report on the resurgence of apple

[MrXStark]

RIP Steve Jobs :-)

[MercSLRFan]

@MrXStark What are you smiling about?

[MrXStark]

@MercSLRFan Smiling at steve :-/

[dhakagod]

Mac morons piss me off. Not that mac are bad, but the way people like steve jobs and mac morons glorify macs never makes sense.

[dcdindo]

like what Larry Ellison predicted, we now have internet TV..

no PC at home.. :D

[tepeke88]

Lmao ironically 10 years later Apple has Steve again n owns the tech industry once more while Microsoft stalls a bit! I love competition between these 2 its kinda like Pepsi vs Coke!

[Gregz0r1]

Well, 2006 marked the ten years that Cringely had time travelled to at the end there, so what do we have?...

[TTVRewind]

@Gregz0r1 He came out with a 3 part series titled "Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet" in 1998, it mostly revolves around the history of the internet and what the future may hold.

[Gregz0r1]

I urge everyone to watch all three episodes in order. I just learned so much about how this industry REALLY grew and developed. I'd only seen very short snippets previously, but this series has given me a much broader understanding.

[mrjimmatube]

...and now android...will be...the new winzoz...but without "windos bullshit"...but...it will be only one the best system...Mac Os!!!!!

[thatsistheguy]

Pfft. The Internet won't catch on.

[IceFritzLanger]

They should said who are the NY Xerox Executive who were dummies =))